

Performance Improvement 2009. What Relationship Exists Among Obesity, Disability, and Other Health Conditions in the Elderly?
This study explored the relationship between excess weight and obesity in a series of cross sectional and longitudinal analyses in an attempt to evaluate these concerns. The authors used data from the 1998-2004 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. The recent rise in the prevalence of obesity and overweight in the U.S. population has raised m